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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-02-10
IA, Aot,-SaIoon L.nrue

NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-Dr. T. d. Ban
croft of Kansas is expected by the ma
tional committee of anti-saloon repub-
lican league to arrive here to-day. He
has been engaged by the league to or
ganize anti-saloon republican clubs all
over the country, and his mission here
is for the purpose of comforting with
Chairman Griffin before starting out
upon the work. He will probably be-
gin in Connecticut. His efforts will be
seconded in all ways by the committee
in sending out documents and appeals
to anti-saloOn people in every locality,
urging and authorizing them to organ
iZe local leagues as rapidly as possible
without waiting for outside prompt
ings. When a reasonable number of
these local leagues have been formed
they will be merged into state organ
izatiOn, unless there is already one in
existence.
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street car travel between Newport and

4
street car travel between Newport and
Coyington.
THE OHIO STILL RAISING.
The river continues to rise steadily
at the rate of an inch an hour. 1t was
fifty-four feet and eight inches at Il
o'clock. Reports from points on the
river to-day show a rising river all the
way to the headwaters. In the lower
portions of the city, as well as in New
port and CovingtOn, there are many
families removing from the lower floors
to upper ones, or out of the houses
altogether.
UNEARTHED A FRAUD.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 4.-For the past two
days the officials at the city hall have
as vet arrived at no solution of it. At
noon to-day the board of public i'm
provementS held special session and
summoned before it George w. Allen
who, as president of the city council,
acted as mayor recently during Mayor
Francis absence from the city. Mr..
Allen said that in the discharge of his
duties at that time, or to be exact, on
January 20 last he signed an ordinance
authorizing over quarter of million
dollars worth Of improvements OF GER
tain streets. On the same day he
turned them over to the clerk of the
house of delegates and on Friday, JAN
uary % they were submitted to the
house. They were dated January 20 at
that time but they now bear the date of
January %, the ''6'' having been
changed to an ''8." Who committed
the forgery is unknown, but the act is
and will cause a most vexatious and
serious delay of the contemplated i'm
provements.
TALBOT ARRESTED.
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 4.-Charles W.
Talbot. the night clerk of the Gayso
house, Memphis, who deeamped on
Monday night with the diamonds Of
Fanny Davenport, the actress, was ar
rested tonight at the Delmonico hotel,
detective, and George .. Haguer, of
Memphis police. Talbot arrived
Tuesday morning and registered rs F..
W. Hall, Tennessee, and the officers
arrived this morning. The diamonds
valued at S25. 600 were found intact in a
satcheI in Talbott's room. The
young man, who is but 10 years of
age, appeared somewhat crestfallen,
He readily admitted his guilt,
and said he was impelled to it by his
mistress, Jennie McGill, who iInpor-
tuned him for money. He had arranged
to meet her here next Tuesday, when
they were to go to Chicago and have
good time. He says he took s175 in
money and of this he returned over 500
to the officers. He asserts that he
thought the jewels We're worth only
about So 900. He took the train for
Springfield. Mo, expecting to go to st.
Louis for Il day or two and then come
here. but afterwards decided to come
directly to this city. His parents reside
in Cairo. lie went to the GayOse house
four years ago as hat boy. and last year
became night clerk. lie will be taken to
Memphis tomorrow
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sunoo.tsd TO Death

CHICAGO, Feb. 5.-During a fire in
the house of John Zimmerman at No.
S6S Thirty-third street last evening
two small children were suffocated to
death. When the fact of the presence
of the children in the house was made
known to the tiremen two of them en-
tered the house and found the young
sister upon the bed with her head COW
cred by pillow and the elder on the
stairway. Both children were dead
though neither was burned.
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How Much Timber a Tree viii Make.

How is the amount of timber in .
standing tree caiculatedp The usual
rule for measuring timber is to meas
ure the trunk round the middle, take
one-fourth part of the girth and square
it, and multiply this square by the
length or hight of the tree. In calcu-
lating a standing tree it is usual to
measure the hight of the tree to the
first fork, and if there is still a good
portion of trunk above that is measured
separately and added to the previous
calculation. If tree is very irregular,
divide it into several lengt and find
the solidity of each part separately; or
add all the girths together and divide
the sum by the number of them. When
the square of the quarter girth is multi
piled by the length. the product gives a
result nearly one-fourth less than the
quantity in the tree. This rule is, how
ever, invariably practiced by timber
merchants, and is not likely to be
abolished. Some allowance ought TO
be made to the purchaser on account Of
the waste in squariug the wood so as to
be fit for use. DE-. Hutton recommends
the following rule. which will give the
contents extremely near thetruth: ':Mul-
tiply the square of one-fifth of the girth
by twice the length, and tho product
will be the con tents"
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Lord Ailesbury's estate in Wiltshire
is, says the World Uondon), one of the
most beautiful in England. Saver
make house. sometimes called Totem
ham park, lies in the midst of Saver
make forest, surrounded by the grand
est woodland scenery in Great Britain.
The forest is sixteen miles in circum-
ference and contains upward of four
thousand acres. The trees are mag
nificent and story is often told of
how q visitor asked one of the forest
keepers when one of the avenues was
planted. '.Plantedp' was the answer,
in q tone in which amazement was
blended with indignation; them trees
never was planted; they are as old as
the world" The ferns are of extra
ordinary size and the breed of deer is
one of the best in the country. The late
marquis freely opened the forest TO the
public and during eight months in the
year thousands of visitors roamed about
It, enjoying its beauties.
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High LIcenue I'm vTInnesota.

ST. PAUL, Feb. 3.-The hall of the
house Of representatives was filed this
afternoon by the friends and opponents
OF the Prusser high license bill which
had already passed the senate. The
bill fixes the license in cities of l0, 900
or more at 81 900 and in smaller places
$500. A motion to amend by making
the higher license $500 instead of 81 900
failed, yeas 80, nays A. The bill finally
passed by an emphatic majority and
will doubtless become a law. The bill
above as they may see fit and does not
effect the local option provisions previ-
Ously passed.
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RIo-k.d. Wor.r rh.nExr

NEW YORK, Feb. 5-The freight
blockade on the river front was worse
this morning than it was yesterday af-
ternoon. In many instances truckmen
left their wagons in the line last night
and took the horses to the stables and
came back and slept on the truck. The
announcement by most of the COM
panies that they would be in position
to receive freight, caused big rush,
but when some of the truckmen, hay-
ing waited all day yesterday and then
unhitched their horses and returned
home and reported that there was nc
sign of their being able to discharge,
merchants saw how useless it was to
attempt to ship freight in large guam
| titles. One driver in front OF
| Morgan'S dock said he had
loaded up at Thurber's yesterday at {
O'Clock, and the truck has been in line
ever since that time, and at O'Clock
this morning there were fifteen me1
ahead of him. At pier No. of tho
Lehigh Valley railroad opened two
doors aud hung up board stating that
local freight only would he received
| Pier No. 8 OF the Alexander line was
closed. 1t was stated that at one o.
the Pennsylvania piers freight was be
| ing dumped into the cars indiscrim
inately, to be sorted in transit. TIL,
New Jersey Central piers, Is and IA
are closed and freight offered coulC
not be handled. The jam of truck
extended from pier to pier Is.
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Rxei.auaanrtnraxn..

Great excitement has been caused in
the vicinity of Paris, Texas, by the re-
mArkable recovery of Mr.. lie. Corley,
who was so helpless he could not turn
in bed, or raise his head; everybody
sssa he was dying Of consumption. A
trial bottle of DR.. Kings New Discov-
cry was sent him. Finding relief, he
bought large bottle and box of DIR.
Kings New Life Pills; by the time he
had taken two boxes of pills and two
bottles of the discovery, he was well
and had gained in flesh thirty-six
pounds.
Trial bottles of this great discovery
for consumption free at B. Wheldon's.
Large bottles 81.
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ST. LOUIS, Feb. 3.-A special from
Warrensburg, Missouri, says. Last
night about O'Clock this city was the
scene of a diaboli cal murder. F. NJ.
Prussing, prominent grocer, while on
his way home after business ,hours,
was struck a severe blow upon the
head with a hickory club in the hands
of some one unknown. The blow
rendered him senseless, having frac-
tured the skull, and his assailant then
fifed his pockets of their con-
tents and fed. Prussing died
in short time. He was paid, yester-
day, $4,000, the amount of a mort
gaze he held on city property, and it is
supposed the murderer was a ware of
tins fact and committed the crime in
the hope Of robbing his victim of the
money. Prussing, however, had left
the amount in the safe, where it was
found intact this morning. Fo clew
to the murderer was found.
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Railroad disaster. .

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Feb. 5.-The
night express train for Montreal
which left here at s:15 last night, ran
off the bridge at Woodstock, Vermont
two miles north of White River juno
ton, and the sleeping and passenger
cars and bridge were entirely burned
1t is reported there are large
number of persons injured and mum
Der of killed and burned. It is also
reported that Conductor Sturteyant
was fatally burned. The accident Oc-
CURED between l and 2 O'Clock this
morning ON the Central Vermont road
THE KILLED.
TROY, n. Y, Feb. Sit is reported
here that sixteen persons were killed
in the accident last night on the Yer
mont Central railroad near White
KiYer Junction.
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rhe verd,et unanImou..

w. ID. Suit, druggist, Bippus, Indi-
ana, testifies: II can recommend
Electric Bitters as the best remedy.
Every bottle sold has given relief in
every case. One man took six bottles
and was cured of rheumatism of ten
years standing" Abraham Hare
druggist Belleville, Ohio, affirms;
"The best selling medicine I have ever
handled in my twenty years. exper'
fence, is Electric Bitters.'' Thousands
of others have added their testimony
SO that the verdict is unanimous that
Electric Bitters do cure all diseases OF
the liver, kidneys or blood. Only &
half dollar a bottle at B. Wheldon':
drug store.
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A Word About Catarrh.

LIT is the mucous membrane, that wonder
full semi-fluid envelope that surrounds the
delicate tissues of the air and food passages,
that Catarrh makes its stronghold. Once es-
tahlished, IL eats Into the very Vitals and rem
ders life but IA Iong-drawn breath of misery
and disease, dulling the sense of hearing,
trammeling the power of speech, destroying
the faculty of smell. taintinR the breath, and
killing the refined pleasures of taste. Insid-
iously, by creeping on from simple cold In
the head, it assaults the membraneous lining
and envelopes the bones, eating through the
delicate coats and causing Inflammation,
sIoughing and death. Nothing short of total
eradication will secure health 10 the patient,
and all alternatives are simply tprocrastinnted
suffering, leading to II fatal termination. San
ford's Radical Cure, by inhalation and by In
ternal administration, has never failed; even
when the disease has made frightful inroads
on delicate constitutions, hearing. smell and
taste have been recovered, and the disease
thoroughly driven out.
SANFoRD's RADICAL CURE consists of one
bottle of the Radical Cure, one box of Catars
rhaI Solvent. and one Improved Inhaler, neat
~ wrapped in one package, with full direc-
lions; price, S1.OO.
potter DRIJG & CHEMICAL. Co, BOSTON.
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Burned BY an over,arnea Lamp.

ROCKFORD. H., Feb. 5.-For the
past year James Colligan, so years of
age, has resided with a granddaughter,
aged 20, and her child of two-years.
Last night the granddaughter went
away, leaving the old man and child
in bed, with a kerosene lamp on a
stand near by. The old man. in get
ting out of bed, knocked over the stand
and the lamp was broken and his
clothing set ON fire. 1t was with great
difficulty that he was rescued from the
/ flames. The little child was literally
roasted alive. The old man is serious
" burned.
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The spiea-van zanat MMrriaxs.

CHICAGO, Feb. S.-''AIiss Van Zandt
made no application to me to visit the
Jail, either as Mrs. Spies or otherwise, y
said Sheriff Matson last evening. ''In
fact, neither she nor any of her friends
have been to see me. If Miss Van
Zandt was legally married to Spies it
would make no difference what
ever in my position" At
the marriage license department
of the county clerks Office it was
learned that no certificate of marriage
had been returned by Justice Engle-
hart and some curiosity is shown as to
how he would make 1t. The statute
provides n fine of 800 for a failure on
the part of person performing mar.
rage ceremony to make a return in
thirty days. IF return be made, ,
said County Clerk Wulff, II shall re-
fuse to receive or record it until ]
have the advice of the states attorney
that it is proper to do So
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The Demurrer SustaIned.

KANSAS CITY, Feb. ga track re-
pairer named Parker, on the HannibalSc
st. Joe railroad, was killed last October
by freight train which was running
with Wabash train on parallel tracks,
and wife of the deceased sued for dam
ages in the circuit court here. The de-
Tense to-day raised the point that
though the plaintiff proved case of
negligence, the defendant was not liza
BILE for injuries to the deceased caused
by the neglect of a co-employee. Judge
Gill sustained the demurrer and nom
suited the plaintiff. The case will be
nnnaaled
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A Raise aIa.a

PITrsBURG, Pa, Feb. ga meeting
of window glass manufacturers of the
United States was held here to-day
and pooling arrangement for the con-
solidation of the eastern and
western associations was formed.
The two associations which
heretofore to a certain extent have an
tagoniZed each other, will in :. the
future act in unison. 1t was decided
to advance prices from five to seven
and one half per cent, to take effect
at once.
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- - -
Riddlsberger FavOrs Substituting
Treaties With
Coast DefenSeS and Hen Of War for
Promoting Peace.
AWarrsnsburg Merchant Murdered
With a Club.
And His Pockets Rihsd of Their
Contents.
Indiana Republicans VIII Contest
Turpie's Election.


NEW YORK, Feb. Ex-senator Rid
dleberger, in letter to Patrick Ford
of the Irish World, explaining why he
voted against the fishery retaliatory
bill, says: II regard such legislation
as child's play. What we want are
coast defenses, cruisers and men-of-
war, with which to resist insults as
they are offered. If we would have
the respect of England, we must com
mand it, and there is but one way to
command it. Beginning with retalia-
ton, so-called, will ultimately end in
treaties which may swap American
citizens for Doodle aldermen. Guns
are better guarantees against insults
and injuries than paper treaties.
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Carnarvon, North Wales; educated at
Normal College Bangor; from thence
he accepted a position as pupil teacher
at Aberllefeni, leaving there in 1873 TO
accept a position as principal of the
Board Schools at Blaena, Festiniog,
where he remained until March, 1886,
emigrating to America in May last
and settled in Emporia. He was
also deacon of good stand
ing at the English Presbyterian
church, Blaena Festiniog, from which
church he received testimonial on
his departure to America, in the shape
of an illuminated address. Having
a brother in Emporia, L. r. Griffith,
who lives two and half miles north
of the city, and always in feeble health,
he had strong desire to see America,
believing also that the climate was
more adapted to his health, but alas
he succumbed to his Illness as already
stated. Mr.. Griffith was perfectly con-
scious and resigned to his fate not
having any hopes of recovery for some
time past, giving instructions as to his
funeral, the memorial stone of his
grave and the inscription thereon.
The stone was to be of granite with
the following words:
Blessed are the dead that die in
the Lord.
After life's fitful fever, He
sleeps we'll.
Besides circle of friends he leaves
"a widow and brother to mourn his
loss.
The funeral will take place on Mon
day, leaving his residence at p. M,
for lower Dry Greek cemetery, where
his remains will be laid to rest. Rev.
Jones will Officiate.
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An ola Can,ict Gonr.

AUBURN, N. Y, Feb. 4.-Wm. Com
stock, the oldest convict in the Auburn
penitentiary, died yesterday. He was
received at the prison in 1858, on a life
sentence for murder committed in
madison county. He killed his father
and mother, and then cut out THEN
hearts and ate them.
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The Miner. rroubl..

PITTsBURG, Feb. Five of the coal
firms along the Monongahela river, who
have conceded the demands of their
employees, are now in operation. There
are indications that the executive board
of the knights of Labor, which is ex-
amining the books of the coal operatives
will agree upon q cents. IF this be
true" said one of the representative
miners this afternoon, Il think the men
could be induced to accept it as COM
promise, but if the board decides on q
cents, they win not accept.
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Nes,,u~ nan. au-nes.

PATTERSON, N. j.. Feb. 5.-Har-
mony mills, a part of R. Fl. Adams
large establishment, was burned this
morning The mill was devoted to the
manufacture of mosquito netting. The
fire started at $40, but is now under
control. The loss is estimated at a
quarter of a million dollars, which is
believed to be fully covered by insur-
ance. The origin of the fire is un-
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NEW YORK, Feb 1.-THE White Star
steamship Republic and the Cunard
line steamship City of Chicago, sched-
uled to leave to-day with trans-atlan-
tic mails, will not be able to get off
because of the strike.
There is a slight Improvement in the
condition of affairs on the river front
this morning and steamship company S
are slowly recovering from stagnation
to business that the strike of long
shoremen Occasioned and are moving
freight with more dispatch than on any
of the past four or five days. No where
is this more noticeable than on East
river front
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Thar IIzzArd

HELENA, Feb. 1.-The Indian COM
missioners arrived at Chouteau last
Friday night from the Blackfoot agen-
cy after hard struggle through the
blizzard. They have been snow bound
at Chouteau ever since, with the Their
mOmeter forty degrees below. There
is such a scarcity of wood in Chouteau
that the fences and unOccupied houses
will be burned if the storm continues.
From six to eight thousand cattle are
strung along the Teton river, suffering
greatly for food. AT Fort Benton
there is fuel famine, with the citi-
Zens burning fences and outhouses.
They have not enough flour and coal
oil to last a fortnight. At Assina-
boine the thermometer registered 81
below zero. The missing Chouteau
coach reached Sun River last night
Sixty dead cattle were found in Glen
dive
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KANSAS STATE NEWS.
The Legislative PrOeedings-Suprem
Court Decisions.
rruTrS TIpTrSz


TOPEKA, Feb. Am the house the
bill to repeal the railroad aid laws was
killed.
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.
The following decisions were given by
the supreme court to-day:
BY HORTON, C. J.
II. H. Wilcox VS.. Seymour L. II. By
ington, error from Shawnee county; af-
firmed.
Rufus E. Cable VS.. Kersey Coates,
assignee of the Masten bank, error from
Wyandotte county; affirmed.
Henry Struber VS.. George Rohlens,
error from Washington county; affirmed.
Commissioners of Riley county .et al. at
firmed.
BY VALENTINE.
John NJ. Fisher VS.. J. o. Carpenter.
error from Dickinson county; reversed.
VIM. Sasch VS.. Anna Sackett ct al,
error from Shawnee county; affirmed.
State of Kansas, ex rel, VIM. A
Pierce, VS. The Board of County Com
missioners of Wabaunsee county, Kas.:
affirmed.
Ellis Briggs vs. L. C. Latham, error
from BOwden county; affirmed.
The City of Abilene VS. Ida Hen
bricks, error from Dickinson county:
| affirmed.
| BY JOHNSON, J.
r. w. TarboX VS.. p. e.. Sughree
original proceedings in the nature OF
quo warrahto, judgment for defendant
l.. w. CherringtO VS.. j. G.. j. Ernin.
| gan, original proceedings in the nature
of quo warranto; judgment for defend
| ant.
r. Gaere VS.. S. Gallagher, origina
proceedings in the nature of quo war
ranto; Judgment for defendant.
L. j. Beard VS.. Chas. Van Tromp
original proceeding in the nature of quo
warranto; Judgment for defendant.
State of Kansas VS.. David MiZe, ap-
peal from Cloud county; reversed.
Henry Seibert VS.. Edison Baxter, er
Tor from Marion county; affirmed pei
curtain.
State of>Kansas VS.. r. D. Parker
motion to revive cause allowed.
The state of Kansas eX rel VS.. j. II
Stock at all; motion to strike out pOr
ton of the answer over ruled.
Topping, Hall and McClintock VS.
Terry Crutchfield, error from Dougla
county. cause dismissed.
John G. Douglas VS.. Moses Ruffin
The order for dismissing cause was Sc
aside and the case was reinstated.
The city of Parsons VS.. w. III. Lind
say. cause revived in the name o
Zerelda B. Lindsay administrative a
defendant IN error.
| &. +. Godfrey's petition for writ O
habeas corpus denied and the petitiOne
Temanded to the custody of the sheriff
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DIED.

At his residence. ia Market street,
at 4:8O a. m. Saturl lay after lingering
illness of six weeks '.of complicated
diseases. Mr.. Grifith Griffith aged 50
years.
Mr.. Gri6ath was born at Graig-wen,